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ECONOMY: PICASSO
- Open to the public: from 25 May to 2 September 2012
- Curated by: Pedro G. Romero and Valentín Roma
- Organized and produced by: Museu Picasso de Barcelona
- The show will be presented in the Temporary Exhibition rooms
- The dematerialization of the arts is often put forward as having two distinct genealogies, albeit with numerous points of intersection: one configured by the operations of Duchamp and his followers, the other tracing its most salient moments and modes in the various Russian Productivisms. However, not only does the line initiated by the art of Pablo Picasso, together with its material consequences, constitute the ‘configuring element’ of the present economy of art, but the neglect into which its genealogical trail has fallen makes it all but impossible for us to engage realistically with the current landscape of the arts.
- With Economy: Picasso we want not only to help retrace the line of force implicit in the work and the trade in Picasso’s art in the landscape of current artistic practices, we also want to find, in their most radical manifestations and their most original operations, ways with which to reformulate the current state of relations between art and the world — relations that are always economically mediated, whether by the distribution or the exchange of the things themselves.
- In addition to works by Picasso, the exhibition will include works by artists from his circle (Marcel Duchamp, Max Jacob, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Mario de Zayas, Max Aub, Helios Gómez, Felipe Alaiz, Barradas, etc), works by major mid-20th-century artists (Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Yves Klein, Jasper Johns, Asger Jorn, etc), and other works from the long present of the dematerialization of the arts (Marcel Broodthaers, Guy Debord, Mel Bochner, Jan Dibbets, Hanne Darboven, IsidoroValcárcel Medina, Hans Haacke, Adrian Piper, Nacho Criado, Sherrie Levine, Gavin Jantjes and Zachary Formwalt, among others).
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A Celebration of the Jacqueline Picasso Donation of Ceramics
- Open to the public: October 25th, 2012 throught April end, 2013
- Guest curators: Marilyn McCully and Michael Raeburn
- The exhibition commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of Jacqueline Picasso’s gift of 41 unique ceramics to the Museu Picasso in 1982.
- As a young woman Jacqueline Roque Hutin had worked as a salesperson for the Madoura pottery in Vallauris, and it was there that she first met Picasso. Her association with the pottery and its owners, Suzanne and Georges Ramié, brings an important personal identification with ceramics to her relationship with the artist and, thus, to the donation itself.
- All of the works in the donation will be displayed in a new installation, with special attention given to the groups of plats longs and decorated empreintes originales, in which Picasso carried out his largest number of experiments in the ceramic medium; the pignates, which recall in their decoration the pottery traditions of Antiquity; and the plats espagnols, which make specific reference in form and imagery to the celebrated Spanish chargers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- The show will be accompanied by a complete catalogue of the donation, with details of techniques, materials and historical context provided for each piece.
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